| November
2007
Next
UWT Advisory Board Meeting:
Dec.
13 at 3:30 p.m.
Tacoma Room, UW Tacoma.
RSVP:
call (253) 692-5753
or e-mail jan11@u.washington.edu
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In
this issue
A
growing campus
Puget Sound partnership
UWT a 'Bay Hero'
Philip Hall construction begins
Chancellor's annual address
UW Tacoma in the news
A growing campus: The challenge of expanding in the
city
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As
a growing urban university, UW Tacoma faces an unusual
challenge: How does a campus expand when it doesn't
own the land it was intended to fill?
The
university is taking steps to address this problem and
acquire the remaining land in its 46-acre campus footprint
over the next several years. This winter, UW Tacoma
will ask the Legislature for $5.5 million to purchase
properties within the footprint. In addition, Gov. Gregoire
has included funding to purchase the remaining property
in her long-term capital budget.
Read
more about UW Tacoma development
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An
aerial view of UW Tacoma's 46-acre footprint, bounded
by Tacoma and Pacific avenues and 21st and 17th streets.
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Puget Sound Partnership will have UW Tacoma link
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Research
by UW Tacoma faculty and students will play a role in
the work of the Puget Sound Partnership, a new state
agency charged with cleaning up Puget Sound. Gov. Chris
Gregoire announced in October that the Puget Sound Partnership
offices will be located in Tacoma’s Urban Waters
facility, a marine research center to be located on
the Foss Waterway that will also house UW Tacoma researchers.
The
facility is expected to become the headquarters of the
study and clean-up of Puget Sound pollution. With Puget
Sound Partnership, the state has set an ambitious goal:
To make Puget Sound “swimable, fishable and digable”
by the year 2020.
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Gov.
Chris Gregoire, left, and Chancellor Pat Spakes at
the Puget Sound Partnership announcement.
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Citizens
for a Healthy Bay names UW Tacoma a 'Bay Hero'
The
University of Washington Tacoma was among three universities
to receive Citizens for a Healthy Bay’s “Bay Hero
Award, Excellence in Environmental Education” for its
outstanding contributions to the health of Commencement Bay
and surrounding waters in South Puget Sound recently. UW Tacoma
was selected for the award based on its proposed Urban Waters
program now under development.
Campus
construction update
| Construction
began in September on the $12.5 million, 20,000-square
foot William W. Philip Hall between the Walsh Gardner
and Cherry Parkes buildings. Foot traffic has been re-routed
in front of the Library for the duration of the project.
Construction is proceeding on schedule and the building
will open in fall 2008. In other campus construction
news, Thomas Hacker Architects have begun predesign
for the upcoming renovation of the Joy Building to provide
additional classroom and office space. |
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Chancellor's
annual address calls for growth at UW Tacoma
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Chancellor
Pat Spakes delivered her annual campus address Oct.
24, calling on UW Tacoma staff, faculty and students
to be prepared for rapid change as the campus grows.
UW Tacoma will play a key role in the Governor's
plan to increase the number of Washington residents
who earn bachelor's degrees, Spakes said.
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Two
ways to see the chancellor's address:
Read
the text (Adobe PDF document)
Watch the video: Windows
Media or QuickTime
UW
Tacoma in the news
News
and projects of interest to the UW Tacoma community.
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Joe
Lawless, a UWT alum and new director of the Milgard School's
Center for Corporate Leadership and Social Responsibility,
was profiled in a Q&A in The
News Tribune.
UWT
News You Can Use is a monthly e-newsletter produced
by the University of Washington Tacoma Office of Advancement
to publish news of interest to friends of the campus. Write
to us at uwtnews@u.washington.edu
or call (253) 692-4536.
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Copyright 2007 University of Washington Tacoma
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